Word: snuffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name on the succession list was that of New Mexico's Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson. Like Hannegan, Clint Anderson was not feeling up to snuff. Suffering from diabetes, he had doubled his insulin treatments under pressure of his Cabinet job. His real ambition is to go to the Senate if New Mexico's Carl Hatch decides not to run again next year. But this week Clint Anderson was off for Hawaii, where he will spend the next few weeks resting up and thinking it over with Bob Hannegan at Ed Pauley's fancy Cocoanut Island hideaway...
Next day cigar-smoking (and snuff-sniffing) Winston Churchill burned a rag under Laborite noses. Said he, in a London speech: "Our country is being driven to ruin and our Empire is scattered and squandered. Everyone is conscious of the approaching crisis in our financial and economic affairs. The Socialist Government is living on an American dole, and squandering it with profligate rapidity...
...investigation's long-range aim: to isolate the cold virus and develop a vaccine. Each guest, on admission, snuffs a fluid up his nose. About 45%, used as controls, snuff only a harmless broth; the rest get virus-containing nasal washings from people with colds. Only about one-fourth of all the subjects actually come down with colds. Thus far, the doctors have no important new findings to report, but they think they have definitely established that wet feet, exposure to cold, etc. do not necessarily cause colds. The mischief is done by sneezers...
...special purposes, penicillin can be used successfully, under a doctor's prescription, in lozenges, creams, ointments, nose sprays, snuff...
...this kind of folk, but Novelist Baker claims to have known them all his life and makes out a good case for their being a particularly cussed and ornery lot. Blood of the Lamb is not much of a novel, but it is long on local color, loud piety, snuff, "stump liquor" and local talk...